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...period of time will deliver a tremendous blow to Harvard. Without his prowess in the heavyweight class, the Crimson will be at a disadvantage in dual meets, and will be counting on other proven winners like Preston, O’Connor, and tri-captain Max Meltzer to pick up points more than ever...
...future—or whose parents have certain ideas about the future—be able to do a secondary field in economics and concentrate in one of the smaller programs they are more interested in?” Foster said. “Or, alternatively, will students all pick the concentration that seems to flow more fluidly into the future?” Nevertheless, the Standing Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology’s decision to submit a secondary field proposal was “totally unanimous,” according to Foster...
Didn’t get to take a globalization class from Lawrence H. Summers? You can learn about the flat world from Jason Beckfield, a visiting from the University of Chicago. A great excuse to read Thomas L. Friedman’s books—or to pick up The New York Times—this spring...
...Maybe we can find, or invent, a more hopeful trend: the Crisis-Time Pick-Me-Up. In troubled times, Oscar sometimes looks for an antidote (or palliative), and chooses a happy-think movie for Best Picture. It happened during World War II, when the Catholic musical Going My Way won, and in the Vietnam War, with the Dickens musical Oliver, and at the apogee of the Watergate crisis, with The Sting, and just after the Clinton impeachment, when the modest comedy Shakespeare in Love snipered Steven Spielberg's bloody Saving Private Ryan...
...wrong. To be sure, a group of researchers led by physiologist Charles Roselli of Oregon Health & Science University has killed about 55 sheep, homosexual and heterosexual, in order to study the neurological basis of sexual attraction. They have confirmed that test sheep are gay by allowing them to pick among males and females that have been restrained in stanchions to await sexual intercourse...